News stories for Dr Hafiz A Pasha

Dr Hafiz A Pasha

Opinion

The economic malaise

Pakistan today faces the worst financial crisis in its 75-year history. This is attributable to both long-term ...

Updated 28 Mar, 2023 06:52am

Opinion

Falling exports and imports

The February figures of exports, imports and balance of trade have just been released. They tell a story of extreme...

Updated 21 Mar, 2023 07:01am

Opinion

Containment of imports

The latest international trade statistics for the period, July to February, 2022-23, have just been released by the...

Published 14 Mar, 2023 03:18am

Opinion

Galloping inflation

Pakistan is seeing today an unprecedented hike in the rate of inflation. The CPI has risen on a year-to-year basis ...

Published 07 Mar, 2023 03:16am

Opinion

Progressive fiscal policy

The Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has said recently in the...

Published 28 Feb, 2023 06:15am

Opinion

Surging govt debt

The statistics on total debt of Pakistan as of end-December 2022 has been released recently by the SBP (State Bank ...

Published 21 Feb, 2023 05:58am

Opinion

Budgetary outcome in 1HFY23

The information on fiscal operations from July to December 2022 of the federal and the provincial governments has...

Published 14 Feb, 2023 05:58am

Opinion

Strategy for resource mobilisation

The technical discussions in Islamabad on the ninth review of the IMF programme between the IMF staff and the...

Published 07 Feb, 2023 06:39am

Opinion

Big rise in poverty, unemployment

The current combination of various negative factors is likely to lead to a big exponential jump in the number of...

Updated 04 Feb, 2023 07:11am

Opinion

State of the economy

The first six months of 2022-23 have witnessed considerable uncertainty about country’s economic prospects. ...

Published 31 Jan, 2023 06:01am

Opinion

GDP growth in 2022-23 — II

The previous article by this writer had presented the estimate of the GDP growth rate in 2022-23 as negative 1% from...

Updated 26 Jan, 2023 12:50am

Opinion

GDP growth in 2022-23

The World Bank has revised its projection downwards of the GDP growth rate of the economy of Pakistan in 2022-23 ...

Published 17 Jan, 2023 06:02am

Opinion

Galloping inflation

Pakistan today is experiencing high and rising rate of inflation. This is the highest inflation after 1973-74 and...

Published 10 Jan, 2023 06:00am

Opinion

Stresses on the federation

The public eye has been focused on the on-going confrontation between the federal government of the PDM and the...

Published 03 Jan, 2023 03:25am

Opinion

Low foreign inflows

The foreign exchange reserves of the SBP have plunged to $6,116 million as of 16th of December 2022. There has been ...

Published 27 Dec, 2022 06:07am

Opinion

Cash surplus of provincial govts

The role of the four provincial governments has increased after the 18th Amendment. They have also become entitled ...

Published 20 Dec, 2022 05:58am

Opinion

Shortfall in revenues

The last financial year witnessed a record performance by the FBR (Federal Board of Revenue). Tax revenues increased...

Published 13 Dec, 2022 05:58am

Opinion

SBP’s newfound realism

The recent meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) has led to the ...

Published 06 Dec, 2022 05:58am

Opinion

Imbalanced balance of payments

There has been appreciation of the success achieved in bringing down the current account deficit in the external...

Published 29 Nov, 2022 06:36am

Opinion

Breakdown of external economic relations

The fact that Pakistan is currently operating under an IMF (International Monetary Fund) programme, under the...

Published 22 Nov, 2022 03:23am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Chakwal Spinning / Mar 30 Chakwal Spinning Mills Limited(CWSM)	1.36 ▲ 0.20 (17.24%)
First Pak Mod. / Mar 30 First Pak Modaraba(PAKMI)	1.34 ▲ 0.13 (10.74%)
Dewan Sugar / Mar 30 Dewan Sugar Mills Limited(DWSM)	2.57 ▲ 0.23 (9.83%)
B.R.R.Guardian / Mar 30 B.R.R. Guardian Modaraba(BRR)	12.04 ▲ 0.99 (8.96%)
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Mar 30 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	2.25 ▲ 0.18 (8.70%)
Ismail Ind. / Mar 30 Ismail Industries Limited(ISIL)	518.26 ▲ 36.15 (7.50%)
K.S.B.Pumps / Mar 30 KSB Pumps Company Limited(KSBP)	110.72 ▲ 7.72 (7.50%)
Towellers Ltd. / Mar 30 Towellers Limited(TOWL)	233.92 ▲ 16.32 (7.50%)
Janana D Mal / Mar 30 Janana De Malucho Textile Mills Limited(JDMT)	41.33 ▲ 2.88 (7.49%)
Nagina Cot. / Mar 30 Nagina Cotton Mills Limited(NAGC)	59.87 ▲ 4.17 (7.49%)

Stock	Price
First Prudential Mod. / Mar 30 First Prudential Modaraba(PMI)	1.40 ▼ -0.24 (-14.63%)
Trust Mod. / Mar 30 Trust Modaraba(TRSM)	1.30 ▼ -0.20 (-13.33%)
KASB Modaraba / Mar 30 KASB Modaraba(KASBM)	1.09 ▼ -0.15 (-12.10%)
Sapphire Fibres / Mar 30 Sapphire Fibres Limited(SFL)	1018 ▼ -82.00 (-7.45%)
Sardar Chemical / Mar 30 Sardar Chemical Industries Limited(SARC)	32 ▼ -2.55 (-7.38%)
Philip Morris Pak. / Mar 30 Philip Morris (Pakistan) Limited(PMPK)	461 ▼ -36.43 (-7.32%)
Shield Corp. / Mar 30 Shield Corporation Limited(SCL)	282 ▼ -22.00 (-7.24%)
JDW Sugar / Mar 30 JDW Sugar Mills Limited(JDWS)	356 ▼ -26.79 (-7.00%)
Gillette Pak / Mar 30 Gillette Pakistan Limited(GLPL)	113.11 ▼ -8.00 (-6.61%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Mar 30 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	345.20 ▼ -24.31 (-6.58%)

Stock	Volume
Telecard Limited / Mar 30 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,447,500 ▼ -0.28
WorldCall Telecom / Mar 30 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	9,398,662 ▲ 0.01
Pakistan Alumin / Mar 30 Pakistan Aluminium Beverage Cans Limited(PABC)	7,638,000 ▲ 0.43
Pak Int.Bulk / Mar 30 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	6,018,500 ▲ 0.06
Pak Elektron / Mar 30 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	5,734,000 ▲ 0.00
Nishat Mills Ltd / Mar 30 Nishat Mills Limited(NML)	4,517,879 ▲ 0.48
Shifa Int.Hosp / Mar 30 Shifa International Hospitals Limited(SHFA)	4,299,000 ▼ -1.00
Agha Steel Ind. / Mar 30 Agha Steel Ind.Ltd(AGHA)	3,337,500 ▲ 0.16
Oil & Gas Dev. / Mar 30 Oil & Gas Development Company Limited(OGDC)	2,789,722 ▼ -0.24
Bankislami Pak. / Mar 30 BankIslami Pakistan Limited(BIPL)	2,649,500 ▲ 0.19

Markets →

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Mar 30	284.05
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Mar 30	283.80
USD to Japanese Yen / Mar 30	132.47
USD to Swiss Franc / Mar 30	0.92
Pound Sterling to USD / Mar 30	1.23
Euro to USD / Mar 30	1.08
UK LIBOR % / Mar 29	4.81

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Mar 29	4027.81
India Sensex / Mar 29	57960.09
Nasdaq / Mar 29	11926.24
Dow Jones / Mar 29	32717.60
Tokyo Nikkei / Mar 30	27782.93
Hang Seng / Mar 30	20165.78
FTSE 100 / Mar 30	7578.80
Germany DAX 30 / Mar 30	15430.39
France CAC40 / Mar 30	7235.99

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Mar 29	18935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Mar 29	176268
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Mar 30	72.81
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Mar 30	1963.79
Cotton US¢/pound / Mar 30	82.34

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